also makeup
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Make-up consists of things such as lipstick, eye shadow, and powder which some women put on their faces to make themselves look more attractive or which actors use to change or improve their appearance.
Normally she wore little ~...
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2.
Someone’s ~ is their nature and the various qualities in their character.
There was some fatal flaw in his makeup, and as time went on he lapsed into long silences or became off-hand.
= personality
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3.
The ~ of something consists of its different parts and the way these parts are arranged.
The ideological ~ of the unions is now radically different from what it had been.
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